History

The Oakland Museum The Oakland Museum displays hundreds of artifacts in professional exhibits. The museum is volunteer operated and publicly supported. The Oakland Museum is open everyday except holidays from 12:30 to 3:30 pm. There is NO admission charge. Donations are gratefully accepted anytime.
            The Oakland Museum - PO Box 624 - Oakland, Oregon 97462

Applegate Trail emigrants included Rev. Joseph A. Cornwall and his family who reached this valley in 1846. Exhausted by the arduous trip the family built a cabin and endured the winter, moving on north in the spring.

Early Settler Cabin

In 1851 Dr. Dorsey S. Baker established the region's first grist mill and town - Oakland, across Calapooya Creek from the Cornwall's cabin. Construction of the Oregon & California Railroad caused the relocation and founding of a new town by Alonzo F. Brown in 1872.

Oakland Race Track, c. 1925

Soda Fountain.

Fourth of July Parade, 1910

Oakland High School Girls Basketball Team - early 1900s.

Early motorcyclists

"TURKEY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD"

Ward Cockeram's Ranch.

At the turn of the century Oakland was the leading turkey shipping center in the western United States. In 1929 Oakland sponsored the first Northwestern Turkey Show - which came to be known as the largest in the world. It was here that the broad breasted bronze turkey was developed.


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